Capital Noodle Bar Opens In Irvine Tomorrow!

Capital Noodle Bar--the spin-off of Diamond Jamboree's Capital Seafood and Irvine Spectrum's Capital--has announced that it will have its soft opening tomorrow at Crossroads, the same plaza as Creamistry, Urban Plates and DonerG. The Noodle Bar is located next to Ha Long.

I took a peek inside earlier this week and the long, blonde wood benches, in fact, the whole concept, reminds me of David Chang's Momofuku Noodle Bar in NYC. No, it's not Japanese or Korean, rather it's Chinese with lots of egg noodles and wontons that you might have remembered eating at the venerable Kim Tar, which was owned by the same family way back when.

Edwin Goei was born on the island of Java, grew up in La Habra, studied in Irvine, and eats everywhere. Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, he went by the alias "elmomonster" on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.